I had back surgery 3-4 years ago. Pain never leaves. Have to deal with it, don't handicap your team though.
If you can't play through it, go sit on the bench.
To play the last 9:30 of the game and have 0 shot attempts, 3 turnovers cost us the game. We were already playing 5 vs 8. So that took us to 4 vs 8.
That's just the offensive part of it, he already is a liability on the defensive end most nights, as it is. Im usually calling for Offensive/defensive substitutions late in games when able to.
Being used as a decoy isn't the answer. It hurt the team.
Who's fault that is(Carlisle, or Haliburton)? IDK, but it cost us game 1, and at the end of the day, could come back and cost us the series.
If he has a major back issues at 24, that's a bigger issue.
@John Waylon
Post came through while posting, think a lot here ties to your post.
Side Bar:
I wish I could say be doesn't play like this too often, but he frustrates me a lot. So I'm not accepting his injury excuse here, everyone is dealing with something. Either play or don't. To many other occurrences of play like this to dismiss it as a pattern.
I've posted about it here a few times.
It's crazy to think AR is still growing into his body, but he is.
Injuries like this require you to have more intentional workouts, and to focus on building muscle the right way. He will likely come back stronger than before the injury. I'm mostly hoping they've trained him to avoid hits and to not participate in potentially dangerous activities, like snowboarding. 😅🥲
I'm calling it now so it's out there; (barring injury) AR makes the Pro Bowl this season.
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